Reptilia - Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Full reference: T. Tortosa, E. Buffetaut, N. Vialle, Y. Dutour, E. Turini and G. Cheylan. 2014. A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of southern France: palaeobiogeographical implications. Annales de Paléontologie 100(1):63-86
Belongs to Arcovenator according to T. Tortosa et al. 2014
See also Delcourt 2018, Isasmendi et al. 2022, Khosla 2021 and Khosla and Lucas 2023
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MHNA-PV-2011.12.1 to 12.5, a partial skeleton (basicranium & R postorbital; L squamosal, tooth; anterior caudal; R tibia; R fibula). Its type locality is A8 motorway, Pourrières, which is in a Campanian coarse channel fill sandstone in the Argiles rutilantes Formation of France.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at A8 motorway, Pourrières
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